In today's story from the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, We tell the story of Bess Fizel, a St. Lousian who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 20, 2021
The day Dr. Gustav Schonfeld, a Holocaust survivor and Washington University physician, died in 2011, his son Jeremy finished mastering his album, which aimed to tell both his father and his stories.
The studio album, “Iron & Coal,”...
Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...
By Miriam Friedman Morris
• Published February 17, 2021
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on "The Librarians", the official online publication of the National Library of Israel. Check it out for more stories on Jewish, Israeli, and Middle Eastern history, heritage and culture. It is reprinted with...
By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 27, 2020
Our Hebrew Bible teaches us that God has placed before us life and death, but commands us: Choose Life! For Frances Gersten, who died Aug. 10 at 92, choosing life was more than a maxim. She and her late husband, Abraham (Abe), who died in 2016 at 93,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 27, 2020
On Monday, officials at the 25-year-old Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) announced plans to triple the size of the museum, located on the I.E. Millstone campus at the northwest corner of Lindbergh Boulevard and Schuetz Road. The expanded...
St. Louis resident Rachel Miller, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child, will share her story of courage and resilience at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Miller’s...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published February 21, 2019
St. Louisan Tova Braitberg’s father and grandfather tried to shield her from some of the painful parts of their lives.She never heard her grandfather, Gregor Braitberg, talk about how performing music helped him survive the Holocaust. She thinks it...
The Blue Card is a national organization that provides financial assistance to low-income Holocaust survivors for dental care, home health and other services. Clients are referred to Blue Card by social service agencies such as Jewish Family & Children’s...
Harry Borden is Britain’s Annie Leibovitz. Sort of.The American-born, U.K.-raised portrait photographer, 52, admits there “are some parallels” in their careers, though “obviously, I’m nowhere near as successful,” he told JTA.Still, Borden...
By Dale Singer, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 8, 2017
With four grandparents who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany, Rachel Berger is no stranger to the stories from the Holocaust.And when she came to Washington University from New York City, she was one of 13 students who took an intensive freshman class...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 1, 2017
In the wake of last Friday’s observance of Holocaust Memorial Day, coinciding with the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, a disturbing report demonstrated that many of the the survivors of that dark time...
